Climate security challenges in Iraq Entry points for local-level dialogue

sub-district directors, the Ministry of Agriculture, Secondly, and related to the previous issue, lower which has sub-committees in some districts with crop yields have meant supply is not meeting public the remit of allaying land and resource conflicts, demand, causing the prices of key food staples to and the Directorate of Deforestation and Directorate increase in the districts. [...] It then highlights the loyalty and support of these communities in the impact of climate change on the country and order to shore up their claims to the territory in the ways in which it directly and indirectly impacts question. [...] In early 2023, Iraq was also the first Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN (FAO) country in the region to join the Convention on the that aims to increase the capacity of ministerial and Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses sub-national authorities to monitor and improve and International Lakes (known as the UN Water water and land productivity in agriculture.30 Convention). [...] The impact of climate change in the form of drought and desertification has affected 4.2.1 Afak district the availability of and access to water and led to the (Al-Qadisiyah governorate) degradation of the fertile lands used for both farming and livestock herding. [...] The areas areas near the refinery, like Al-Boua Jawri and most affected by the sand dunes are the Baiji area Al-Hinshi, raising concerns about the lack of and its extensions into the Tharthar Valley, the accountability and responsibility on the part of southwest of Baiji to Sukaria, and the Albaajj area the government and those running the refinery.